Nobody’s Fool

By Richard Russo
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By Richard Russo
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By Richard Russo
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Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
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Apr 12, 1994 | 560 Pages

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    About Nobody’s Fool

    Richard Russo’s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.

    Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man’s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father’s footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

    About Nobody’s Fool

    Richard Russo’s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.

    Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man’s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father’s footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

    About Nobody’s Fool

    Richard Russo’s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.

    Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man’s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father’s footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity’s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody’s Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

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    About Richard Russo

    RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.RICHARD RUSSO is available for select readings and lectures…. More about Richard Russo

    About Richard Russo

    RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.RICHARD RUSSO is available for select readings and lectures…. More about Richard Russo

    About Richard Russo

    RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.RICHARD RUSSO is available for select readings and lectures…. More about Richard Russo

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 12, 1994 | 560 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679753339

    Ebook
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 09, 2011 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307809926

    Audiobook Download
    Published by Random House Audio
    Aug 12, 2003 | 1320 Minutes | ISBN 9780739306949

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